Enoplida

Enoplida is an order of nematodes. It is one of two orders in Enoplia, which is one of two subclasses in Class Enoplea.

Enoplida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Enoplea
Subclass:	Enoplia
Order:	Enoplida Filipjev, 1929
Families
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These nematodes are mostly free-living marine animals. Most feed on diatoms and other algaes.

Subdivisions

Upon phylogenetic analysis in 2010, the order was divided into five clades. Clades and selected families include:

• Clade I
  • Family Rhabdolaimidae
• Clade II
  • Family Alaimidae
  • Family Ironidae
• Clade III
  • Family Tripyloididae
  • Family Trefusiidae
• Clade IV
  • Family Oxystominidae
  • Family Oncholaimidae
  • Family Enchelidiidae
• Clade V
  • Family Thoracostomopsidae
  • Family Enoplidae
  • Family Phanodermatidae
  • Family Leptosomatidae

The World Register of Marine Species shows the following suborders within Enoplida:

• Alaimina
• Campydorina
• Dioctophymina
• Enoplina
• Ironina
• Oncholaimina
• Trefusiina
• Trichinellina
• Tripyloidina

Bibliography

Wikispecies has information related to Enoplida.

• Blaxter, Mark L.; De Ley, Paul; Garey, James R.; Liu, Leo X.; Scheldeman, Patsy; Vierstraete, Andy; Vanfleteren, Jacques R.; Mackey, Laura Y.; Dorris, Mark; Frisse, Linda M.; Vida, J. T.; Thomas, W. Kelley (5 March 1998). "A molecular evolutionary framework for the phylum Nematoda". Nature. 392 (6671): 71–75. doi:10.1038/32160. PMID 9510248. S2CID 4301939.
• Lee, Donald L, ed. (2010). The biology of nematodes. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0415272117. Retrieved 16 December 2014.